HOOKED : Secrets and Highs of a Sober Addict

Five years after Melinda Ferguson penned her mega-bestselling memoir Smacked, she released Hooked: Secrets and Highs of a Sober Addict. Despite being ten years clean, she still found herself "addicted". In Hooked, Ferguson becomes enslaved by self-help fads, Oprah, 12-step meetings, dodgy men and social media. She finds herself trapped in a world of instant gratification and narcissism. She struggles to break the cycle of "more, more, more", of use and abuse, which is deeply embedded in her DNA. How does a recovering addict balance kids, a career and relationships, while fighting to stay clean? How do we all fill that hole in our souls? This no-holds-barred account of Ferguson's life after drugs brilliantly reveals the slippery slope of returning to toxic behaviour that led her to use in the first place. Provocative, challenging and darkly humorous, Hooked is a memoir about returning to dangerous places and bravely coming back from the brink. Read more